Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.

I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

A happy wife is a happy life.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.